The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-07
ABOUT PENSIONS AND PENSION
EBA.

1t Ia generally sgreed that the Demo
cratic party In the House will attempt
an adjustment Of the tariff with a view
to the reduction Of the treasury sur.
plus, which increases every year. This
done, some brave man among them
some man who lie without faint Of
moral cowardice and has the courage
OF his convic,ions-should rice in his
place and offer a bill, a well prepared
aud comprehensive bill, cutting down
the pension list and prohibiting the
granting Of any more pensions. The
country is being oyersxsd 10 support
the bummers and scoundrels, 80 many
Of whom were recruited rs substitutes
for the Federal army when conscrip.
lion was resorted to to compel
the duty OF patriotism. Blackguard /,
like Foraker and bomb.proof swsg.
gerers like futile, appealing to the
sel6shneis and seli.intsrest OF the
worthless aud rotty end OF the Grand
Army Of the Republic, are anxious
to increase the pension list and
thus reduce the brave and des. rviDg
toliiers Of the Federal armies, the
willing patriots who fought for their
country and to preserve the Union,
to The level Of the bounty Jumpers " 40
robbed the government Of their pleas.
ure and to repletion. No man Ia wor.
thy OF q pension but 10 who wss
crippled or otherwise disabled Ia the
services OF the Union. Honorable
soldiers should alone be honored by
being enrolled as worthy the bounty
Of a grateful country. Therefore the
pension liat should be revised, ard
every man who can support
himself DO stricken om the
rolls, and the character and
entecedenls Of thcsJ who are left
should be inquired into with q view
to doing honor 10 him TO whom honor
Is due. The bounty jumper, the
thieves and the thugs should bo care.
folly cut ont 30 40 TO make the pen.
zion list as honorable re the service
was patriotic which the true soldiers
rendered. The tide has been runni OK
In one direction TOO long. 1t Ia time
II turned. The touib, whose gallant
manned and wounded have bad TO
exc out a living IS best they could, has
nev,r grumbled at The tar il had and
still ha, to pay % furnish pensions TO
b onesi and honorable Federal soldiers.
Ii 10 the fate OF war. But she thinks
the time has come when the lire
should be drawn, when there
should be some discrimination |
xercised In the granting OF PEN
lions. She thinks they ought TO be-
United to the deserving wounded and |
iiOab!ed. To give q dollar to any |
otben Is to waste the money Of the
people, to indulge In txtTRvsgArce for
the help Of dsmagogues. and to enable
them TO keep themselves in favor
with working ward cumming politi.
rians, who are their main reliance In
elections. The APPEAL is earnest In
Ia advocacy Of the real soldiers a the
Federal army. Thtss are w'rthy OF
honor, but the bounty jumper and
ninety day man, pressed ssainst bis
will for an emergency, were we'll paid
70, all they did In the daily pay. IN.
tions and clothing which they re-.
ceived. We believe the equity 10
ripe Tor revision Of the pension list.
IL Endorsed President Cleyeland's
vetoss, aud II will indope the reoolu.
tons Of any brave Dem )orAt who will
move i'r revision Of the pension lIst
and tho exclusion OF every name
from /, but those Of MANNED and other.
wise disabled soldiers.